TRAVELLING A CIRCUS IS NOT A PICNIC.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XVI, Issue 938, 27 February 1908, Page 16

TRAVELLING A CIRCUS IS NOT A PICNIC.

* Steamer fares a’one run into before we pitch the tents” (said Mr Wirth to a Southern writer), “ then on top of that the New Zea'and railways, which with ou: company and freight (and we do carry some with the menagerie including six elephants) swallows up the best portion of Then 00k at the risk we run—a gale such as we have experienced in New Zealand particularly in We 1 - 1 ngton, means a damaged tent and no performance ; the loss of an anima!—a trained elephant, an experience which befe u- in West Australia, means a loss of something approaching Yes; running a circus is no joke, and we have to make the money quickly to keep things going. Ta’k about running a big opera company why, it’s a Sunday school picnic to running a circus.”